Notes for Religious Studies 369:

Introduction to Judaism

• Course Outline
• Guidelines for writing research papers

Topics

• The Biblical Legacy
• The Second Temple Era
• Judaism of the Talmud and Midrash
• Medieval Judaism
• Medieval Jewish Philosophy
• Kabbalah
• The Modern Era: Emancipation and Enlightenment
• The Modern Era: Religious Reform
• The Modern Era: Positive-Historical Judaism
• The Modern Era: Orthodoxy
• The Modern Era: Judaism in the New World
• Devotion to one God
• God and the World
• Israel's Sacred History
• Afterlife
• The Mystic Path
• Wisdom and Scholarship 1
• Wisdom and Scholarship 2
• Justice and Morality
• Jewish Education
• Places of Worship
• Judaism and Daily Life 1
• Judaism and Daily Life 2
• Judaism and Daily Life 3
• The Sacred Calendar 1
• The Sacred Calendar 2
• The Sacred Calendar 3
• Life Cycle Observances

Films from the series "Heritage: Civilization and the Jews"

• The Shaping of Traditions
• The Crucible of Europe
• Film: Roads from the Ghetto